Character images

[kronos]

Chobits

And nice pic Doug. Tad buffer than I imagined him

[Doug R.]

He's a monster, like Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was young. Unfortunately, the first festival was canceled before he could grease up in the beauty contest and flex for the ladies.

Still the undisputed strongest character on Cantr island. If you care to dispute it, come to Zuzi and prove otherwise.

Only one character of mine left that I want to draw, then on to their spouses.

[Armulus Satchula]

Only one character of mine left that I want to draw, then on to their spouses.

You shouldn't draw on your spouse ;D

[kronos]

I'm curious if anyone else thought like I did as to how my (In this case, yours) characters 'looked'. It was quite strange for myself to realise how I saw them when i was asked. I saw them as colours, essence and emotion. I found it incredibly hard to imagine a physical form for my characters, which amusingly and frustratingly manifested itself in a identity crisis with a character of mine, Adam.

Anyone else experience this when thinking of their own characters?

[SumBum]

Several of mine were difficult to work on when the char descriptions were implemented. I really didn't have a sense of their physical attributes, only personality. Had a very clear picture in my head of how only a couple chars looked.

[Doug R.]

Before character descriptions, for me, appearance was replaced by personality. Ugly characters had ugly personalities. Nice people I thought of as generally beautiful. Now, everyone's typically gorgeous (except for some of Seko's characters - kudos), but I haven't really had much trouble with the transition. If I had mental images of characters (pretty much anyone my characters spent time with), and they didn't match up, I either adjusted or still think of them the way I did before. For example, I can't picture Ari's wife Susan as a non-blond. I always pictured her blond, and I still do. Maybe that'll change once I make the avi and I can get a solid look at her. I also had Laila of Zuzi completely wrong too, (and still have problems picturing her correctly also.)

Regarding my own characters, I always knew what my favorite ones looked like. Appearance is one of the first things I think up when I made them and learned their skills. For my minor ones, that I think of as "average," I just made them look average. One of mine, that used to be minor but is now a major character, his description is just his hair and eye color, followed by "he's completely average in every way."

I personally have a harder time adjusting when people change their forum avatars on me. *glances at kronos*

[Snickie]

I seem to have a tendency for making my characters either really short (2) or average (5, all between 5'7" and 5'10"); Snick is actually my tallest female. Four of my characters are stocky, Snick I actually have as being fat; and the other three (all female, who'd've guessed) are skinny.

Probably my most "gorgeous" character is my Fu Island character, and not even right now due to recent events that have left her a mess. One of my characters is kind of a midget, something I decided after she spawned with way below average strength; she's very small and proportionately awkward, and I personally wouldn't describe her as beautiful or gorgeous in appearance, except maybe her skin tone and possibly her hair texture; she also has grey hairs, despite being my youngest. I have an Asian-looking character, short and stocky. Another character kind-of sort-of looks Asian but isn't, and he appears to have a lack of ability to shave his beard neatly. One of my females is covered in scars from animal attacks. I played a lot with Snick's description initially (I got it wrong since her strength and fighting ability weren't at all what I'd expected), and I have the general part right, and I add and take things away at random depending on the events (like paleness, flushedness, circles under her eyes, looks sick/[insert emotion here], et cetera). I have yet to incorperate odors of any sort.

Of course, the characters aren't necessarily the same in personality as in appearance. Despite her tinyness in size and grey hairs, my youngest has a strong personality. My second most physically "gorgeous" character is the probably the shyest, quietest, non-flaunting, most frustrated character you'll ever meet. My two males are fairly similar both in appearance (although one by far beats the other heightwise) and personality (they don't have much of one, and that's my fault since one of them I spawned without a personality in mind and the other one is so screwed up beyond my original intentions for him).

I plan to spawn a new character as soon as the game is back open to the public, my last valid attempt on an idea I've been trying to perfect. I'm working out a few things (like appearance, though that's hardly important).

That last note in parenthesis was to attempt to bring the conversation back to being semi-relevant to the thread. lol…

I agree, though, that it seems unrealistic to have all gorgeous characters. And while mine might not be as not-gorgeous as Seko's (kudos), at least they're not breathtakingly beautiful like so many of the characters with descriptions that I meet.

I've noticed is that a lot of characters I meet have green eyes (probably because the Cantr interface is green). I'm also going against this trend: Snick is my only character with green eyes, and they're not even completely green; they're amber-yellow-green.

I can't picture Ari's wife Susan as a non-blond. I always pictured her blond, and I still do. Maybe that'll change once I make the avi and I can get a solid look at her.

I can't picture Susan as anything different from my current mental image: in my mind, she has dark brown hair that contains a reddish tint to it.
Ariochus, on the other hand, I don't remember what exactly I pictured him as when my character met him, but it certainly wasn't like Doug's image of him.

[Armulus Satchula]

I seem to have a tendency for making my characters either really short (2) or average (5, all between 5'7" and 5'10"); Snick is actually my tallest female. Four of my characters are stocky, Snick I actually have as being fat; and the other three (all female, who'd've guessed) are skinny.

Now that you mention it. I'm not sure I've ever made a tall female character. I normally go for below average height.

[Snickie]

I seem to have a tendency for making my characters either really short (2) or average (5, all between 5'7" and 5'10"); Snick is actually my tallest female. Four of my characters are stocky, Snick I actually have as being fat; and the other three (all female, who'd've guessed) are skinny.

Now that you mention it. I'm not sure I've ever made a tall female character. I normally go for below average height.

Actually, none of my characters are any taller than 5'10". Snick is 5'9", if I'm not mistaken.

[Chroma Key]

I knew how my chars looked even before the descriptions were implemented. I could see some of them before I made them so my youngsters got to have descriptions as soon as they spawned.

I noticed that many of mine are tall. Female and male alike (probably because I'm so petite ). Only four of them are quite tiny, whereas 7 of them are fairly tall. My tallest girl is 5'11" and I think she is a Plain Jane. What I can't understand about her is how much attention she has attracted from a lot of men ( She's not flirty at all and has been with someone for ages!). Sometimes it seems like it's a matter of interpretation as there is nothing special about her in her description. Granted, she is not ugly, either, but in the absence of any indication either way, the preference seems to tend to go for pretty. Wishful thinking, I say!

I also noticed that most of my girls have curly/wavy hair (of different styles), although it's easy to see I love curly hair.

Out of all my chars, only 2 look really pretty (to me) but that is not mentioned in their description at all. The image I posted earlier belongs to one of them. They were meant to be beautiful and were perceived as such, especially the one not posted here. I did play around with some of her features a few times (adding to the basics) but because she is the most alive char I've had, and she was based on an actual picture, it was easy to perfect it. And I don't think that one's hair came as a surprise to anyone who knew her!

As for others' images, some of the chars I knew for a long time didn't turn out as I expected at all. However, every time I took a closer look at them, their description begins to take over how I see them, till finally that gets closer to how they are described. It feels good to be flexible like that as once I got really bothered about the description of one of my chars' husband the first time I saw it. I might have forced the player to change the char's hair colour as a result. But that was early days. Now I can adjust the images I have of them.

[Indigo]

It was quite strange for myself to realise how I saw them when i was asked. I saw them as colours, essence and emotion.

One of them is made of green, brown and black, his essence is the forest's, his taste is the mushroom's, his voice sounds like the wind through the leaves, and his emotions... only he can know that, cant' he?

[Meem]

He's a monster, like Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was young. Unfortunately, the first festival was canceled before he could grease up in the beauty contest and flex for the ladies.

Still the undisputed strongest character on Cantr island. If you care to dispute it, come to Zuzi and prove otherwise.

Only one character of mine left that I want to draw, then on to their spouses.

HMmm.... would you allow me to draw Ari and Sylvie in my style? Now that I've seen what they kinda look like...and I like drawing buff guys ^^ Guilty pleasure HAHA. What do you think?

[Doug R.]

Absolutely. I asked earlier for your take on Sylvie, but I guess you missed it

Here's a Sylvie with a custom skin.

[Snake]

Red eyes? Maaaaaaaaaaan

[Meem]

Absolutely. I asked earlier for your take on Sylvie, but I guess you missed it

Here's a Sylvie with a custom skin.

O.O I must've. lol I don't pay attention @_@ Haha. Just a quickie question, does she have a bandage there?